Well Neil, I?m not prepared to call BS on all aspects of measuring and controlling green house gas emissions. Reasonably reliable digits and stats indicate that there is about 70% H2O, 7%, some as high as 27 % CO2, and a lot of other players in the Greenhouse Gas mix as well, including NOx . I've been working on NOx emissions as related to gas turbine cumbustors, but mayhaps I should just get my carbon credits and forget this stuff.
One interesting graph shows that the total tonnage going into atmosphere was relatively constant until year 2000, then went right up to current levels which are about 60% higher than year 2000 levels.
But the dogma and rhetoric doesn?t identify the source of this step-change, thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart, I reckon. But, in all reality I don?t recall an industrial boom in the US that began around year 2000. But do remember my last trip to Beijing in 2005 and Jazus, never seen such stack gas and pollution since I worked in the then Soviet Union. Both an experience in eye-watering caugh, gag, spit n? wheeze, boy howdy, except at the time the Volga was known to catch fire from time-to-time from all the hydro carbon dumps and spills going on, oh aarrgg. :ek:
Scamp